Finding Monsters in My Adventures

As a complimentary post to this one, the following can be considered as an aid for judges who are interested in locating a particular creature in an adventure (or other product) that I have written. As with the previous entry, I will attempt to update this blog post periodically after new adventures have been released for some time into the wild. This list is not complete. It is not even up to date for all of my published material so far. But it is a start.

LAST UPDATE: 17 July 2019

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Although I have done several conversions for Goodman Games (Tower of the Black Pearl, Well of the Worm, Dragora’s Dungeon, Xcrawl: Dungeonbattle Brooklyn, Curse of the Kingsire), I have not included creatures from these adventures. They are good adventures, though, and I recommend them. Be aware that the Xcrawl adventure has different base assumptions from core DCC. Likewise, I have not included adventures where I was aiding another, such as The Perplexing Disappearances in Brambury by Brave Halfling. Again, that doesn’t mean you should avoid those adventures. I simply didn’t want the appearance of taking credit for the work of others. Where individual authorship is clear, I have included a product.

To break up the wall of text, the following is separated alphabetically:

A: Aagazzbagh the Golden; Agent of Chaos; Aggor, Ape-Man Priestess; Albino Alligator; Alien Cat; Alien Rat; Allosaur; Allosaurus; Almost-Mummified Cat-Things; Ammonites; the Anger; Animated Apple Tree; Ambulating Fungus; Ancient Horror; Animated Broom; Animated Rug; Animated Willow Tree; Anklosaurus; Antelope; Anvar; Anweman, Prince of Eagles; Argodile; Arvind Shar; Assassin Worm; Avatar of Osmon; Azith; Azith Cadaver; Azzam and Azzizza. 

B: Baal Zymymar; The Balmorphos Serpent; Barkeep; Beast of the Old Darkness; Beggar; Bellwart, the Azure Dwarf; Big Ants; Big Bad Wolf; Billy Cloven-Foot; Bird Swarm; Biting Spider; Black Dog; the Black Goat; Black Goat; Black Skeleton; Blackbell; The Blessed; Bloat Leech; Blood Goddess; Blood Piranha Swarm; Blood Slug; Blooderfly Cloud; Bloodrake; Blue Kobold; The Blue Toad of Squallas; Bogey Bear; Boneless Leech Rats; Born of the Old Ones; Bottle Imp; the Boundless Philosopher; Brides of Blood; Brood-Born of Lamia; Bubosis; Builders; Burrower; Buying Agent.

C: Calobras; Capering Goat-Things; Carnivorous Cows; Carnivorous Sky Whale; Carproach; Carproach, Giant; Carproach Swarm; Carrion Moth; Cat; Cat Swarm; Catkin; Ceratosaurs; Cerberus; Cesscaeda Swarm; Chaos Ooze; Charonite; Children of the Deep; the Cinder Claws; Cinder Ella; Clackbeetle; Clerics of Kala Môr; Cloak; Cobra; Cockroach Marauder; Cockroach Swarm; Cold Stinger; Colossal Salt Leeches; Column of Flesh; Compsognathus; Corpse Eater; Corpse Puppets; Corpse Worm; Corrodile; Cosmic Harriers; Cowardly Lion; Crawling Worm; Crayfisher; the Creator’s Dragon; Crimson Demon; Crimson Void Wraith; Crocodiles; Crossroad Guardian; Crow Swarm; Cthulhu Cultist; Cthulhu Cultist Assassin; Cult Initiate; Cult Priest; Cultist; Cyber-zombies; Cyclops.

D: Dagonite; Dagonite Assassin; Dallspero’s Tin Soldiers; Damned Things; Dancing Horror; Dancing Skeletons; Dark Lily; Darkslime; Death Jackal; Deathjay; Deep Elders; Deer; Demo-grue; Demon of Tsathoggua (Type II); Demon Shadow; Demonic Fly; Demonic Larvae; Demonic Spider; Devil Spider; Dimorphodon; Dire Foxglove; Dive Patron; Doctor Chapman; Doctor Fell; Draconic Scorpion; Draconic Water Nymphs; Drain Runner; Drakes (Black, Green, Grey, and Red); the Dread God Al-Khazadar; Dread Guardian; Dream Analogue; Dream Ghouls; Dream-Beast of Somnos; Drippling; The Drowned Maid; Duani; Duskfeather; Dust Worm; Dying Cave Lion.

E: The Ebony Stag; Ectoplasmic Filaments; Elder Kindred; Elemental Wind Grue; Elf-like Fey; Elven Skeletons; Emissary of Nimlurun; Empara; Empousa; Eohippus; Erasmus Cordwainer Blood; Erinyes; Eurayle; Evil Bird Swarm; Evolved Otyugh; the Experiment Man; Extra-Dimensional Hornet; Eye of Uburtosis.

F: Faceless Gray Horror; Faerie Animals; Faerie Knight; Faerie Spider; Faerie Sylphs; Fakhreddin; Famine Spirits; Farmer Rowantree; Father of Pigs; Fecal Ooze; Fey Cat-Things; Fey Hounds; Figgy Pudding; Filament Crickets; Filth Elemental; Filthlark; Fire Bee; Flame Serpent; Flame Serpent of Set-Utekh; Flesh-Eating Sheep; Flower Zombie; Flying Howler Monkeys; Fog Monsters; Folk of Osmon; the Following Thing; Fugitive; Fungal Wasp Swarm; Fungus Creature.

G: Gaoler’s Skeleton; Gatekeeper; Gaulmurk, the Ogre-Sorcerer; Gelatinous Slime Mold; Gelid Tentacle; General Miriamum; Gentleman Clubber; Ghoul, Durdarian; Ghoul, Portsmouth; Giant Ants; Giant Bee; Giant Black Widow; Giant Bloodworm; Giant Conch Stomach; Giant Dire Mole; Giant Flatworm; Giant Frog; Giant Hornets; Giant Leech; Giant Muckworm; Giant Mutated Snapping Turtle; Giant Rabbit; Giant Salamander; Giant Spider; Giant Talking Rat; Giant Vampiric Fleas; Giant War Turtle; Giant Wasp; Giant Wolf Spider; Gigantic Crab; Gigantic Invertebrate; Gingerbread Men; Glitterjaws; Globlin; Glowing Violet Fungus; Gnarl-Gnarl; Goblin Animal Trainer; Goblin Guardsman; Goblin Knight; Goblin Leader; Goblin Sheep; Goblin Steed; Golden Angels; the Goremera; Graceful Wormfolk; Grallistrix; Grandfather of the Forest; Great Black Bear; Great Butterfly; Great Guardian; Great Horned Owl; Greater Larvae; Greater Mummy; Green-white Centipede; Grendel; Grey Humanoids; Grey Ones; Grimperrault, the Sea Dragon; Grunkle; Grydris, Alpha Female Ape-Woman; Guard; Guardian Brood; Guardian of the Deep; Guardian Slime; Guardians of the Temple; Guttersnake.

H: Hadrosaur; Hags of Barg’herzarag; Hanging Moss; Head Hunter; Hellroot; Hellsnakes; Hellspore Fungus; Hexopus; Hoardling; Hobgoblin; Hobyah; Hodag; Homeless Person; Horse-Headed Demons; Howling Serpent; Hungry Goat; Hunter Spider; Hunting Faun; Hutarrak; Hyaenodon; Hybrid Acolyte; Hybrid Dagonite; Hydra Worm.

I: Ice Spider; Icon of Tsathoggua; Ifhane, Goblin King; Impenitent; Impenitent Abbot; Incabulus; Incabulus Spawn; Invisible Guardian; Invisible Lunar Creature; Ipotane; Ironroach Swarm; Ivrian the Unkind.

J: J'Aleth, Empress of the Elder Kindred; Jabbering Skull; Jabberwock; Jackal; Jailor's Assistant; Jane Johnson; Jarnath; Jelly Ants.

K: Kala Môr; King George; King Kroll; the Klarashton.

L: Lady Orialle; Lamia; Lamprey Swarm; Land Bat; Land Bat Swarm; Large Crocodile; Large Slug; Large Spider; Large Tree Spider; Lesser Hag; Librarian's Ghost; Lillit; Living Flowstone; Lizard; the Loathly One; "Lord" Urtokki, Azith Sorcerer; Lunar Centaur; Lunar People; Lurk.

M: Mabtophis, Demon of the Chained Stars; Machen, the Rat Sorcerer; Madka; Mahmat Troth; Malcupine; Man-Eating Cowslip; Manchine; Mansoon Viper; Market Guardian; McCrackers; Martian Skeleton Man; Mayag; Mechanical Brain; Medusa; Mercury Dragon Lizard; Merchant; Merlew; Mermaid; Mermaids from Yuggoth; Migjoyon; Mob Member; Monkey; Moon Reaper; Moon Spider; Moonshroom; Mordent Centipede; Morgil the Moon-Sage; Morhern the Exquisite; Mormurg; Mycarnos, the Violet Jelly.

N: Nick Cutter, the Iron Axeman; Night Soil Catfish; Nightmare Fleas; Nutkins.

O: One-Legged Tin Soldier; the Only; Ontothere; Ooloi; Ophiotaurus; Orange Slime; Ornithomimus; Otyugh.

P: Pachycephalosaurus; Pallid Reflections; Pallid Thorn; Panes; Patricians; Pellas Troth; Penumbral Bees; Peter's Shadow; Phantom; the Phantom Gentleman; Phenoton; Phororhacos; Pickpocket; Pierceblossom; Pink Jellyfish Swarm; Pit-Roses; Plaghorn; Platoon Trooper; Pleth; Poisonous Adder; Poisonous Spider; Poisonous Viper; Polypus White Thing; P'quoth; Praexi; Predatory Donkey; Predatory Fish Spirit; Prince Charming; Prince John; Prisoner Skeleton; Prostitute; Psilamander; Psionomold; Pterosaurs (Small, Large, and Enormous); Pus Bear; Pustule Ooze.

Q: Qophu.

R: Rabbit Swarm; Radiant Brotherhood; Rangdayak; Raptor; Ratfields; Raven; Raven-Headed Horror; Razor Hawk; Red Hood Goblins; Reptile Swarm; Reptilemen; Resurrection Man; Retrimax; Revenant; Revenant of Zin; Rhamphorhynchus; Rheddosus; Rhinoceros; Rhinorc; Ribbon Snake; Riding Moth; Ring Bat; Rishi, Handmaiden of the Empress; Rock Lizard; Rockshell Crab; Root; the Rose Dragon; R'yalas, Lord of the Drowned Ones.

S: Sabre-Tooth; Salamander; Salt Hounds; Satrampa; Satryx; Saturn Cat; Saturnian Ape-Men; Sauropod (Small and Large); Savages; Scarlet Bones; Scarlet Succubus; Scarlet Worm Swarm; Scions of Logos (Tiny to Huge); Sea King; Sea Witch; Seal; Segmented Worm; Selden Esh; Selenites; Sending of Sliggeth; Septic Monkey; Servant of Darkness; Servitor; Severed Hands; Sewer Troll; Sewer Worker; Sewer Zombies; Shadow Creatures; Shaft Crawler; Shimmer Lizard; Shoggoth; Sir Amoral the Misbegotten; Skagaart; Skin Flake; Slaugh; Sleeping Beauty; Slime Crawler; Small Cavemen; Smoke Rat; Smuggler; Snailtaur Guard; Snailtaur Potion Master; Snow White; Snowmen; Sons of the Dragon’s Teeth; Sorcerer’s Skeleton; Sotark the Destroyer; Soul Hunter; Spawn of Yagzarrid; Spider; Spider Sisters; Spinner Queen; The Spinwoman; Spiked Tortoise; Ssethmariss; Star, Lesser and Greater; Stegosaurus; Stellar Ghoul; Stiltman; Stinkdew; Stomoan Shaman; Stone Ape-Man Guardian; Stone Dragon; Strangling Vines; Suanggi; Sugar Plum Faeries; Swamp Light Faerie; Swarm of Corpse Parts.

T: Tabattax; Talking Owls; Tarzan of the Apes; Temporal Serpent; Tentacled Beast; Tentacled Thing; Terrorpin; Theropod; Thief; Thunder Log; Tiger Rat; Tiger-Sized Rat; Tinsel Spiders; Tiny Moon Calf; Tiny Reindeer; Tiny Spider Swarm; Titanosaurus; Toad Things; Toadfish; Translucent Red Slime; Tree Spirit; Triceratops; Troglodyte; Trolligator; Trow; Tunnel Things; Twiggy Man; Two-Headed Roc; Two-Headed Wolf; Type III Demon; Tyrannosaur(us).

U: Um, the Hook-Nosed Gobbler; Un-dead Beauty; Un-dead Crocodile; Un-dead Fiddler; Un-dead Flying Monkey; Un-dead Guts; Un-dead Horror; Un-dead Horror (same name, different monster); Un-dead Imp; Un-dead Mormurg; Un-dead Runners; Un-dead Skeleton Man; Un-dead Slaves; Un-dead Stepsisters; Underbelly Stalker; Unicorn; Unicorn (different from the first); Urstah, the Star Drinker; Ussa-La, Space Princess.

V: Valgazur, the Bone Dragon; Vanth; Vatta; Venomous Serpent Swarm; Venomous Snake; Vermillion Rat; Very Large Men; Vile Drop-Crawler; Vine Warriors; Violet Goblin; Void Stalker; Void Wolf; Vos the Spell-Thief; Vulture-Griffons, Vuthmal Swarm.

W: The Walking God; Walrus; Walrus,Giant; Waspmires; Waste Viper; Water Nymphs; Whisperer; Whisperer of the Void; Whispering Shades; Wild Cat; Wild Pig; Wise Rabbit; Wood Viper; Wooden Guardians; Wormwalker.

X: Nothing for X. Something to fix in future adventures!

Y: Young Wolf Spider Swarm.

Z: Zanatar; Zardu and Zarya; Zombie Bride; Zombie Groom; Zug.

Locating Monsters in this Blog

Currently down for repairs. Please stand by. 

So here is the deal. You will notice some problems with line breaks in this list, which I thought I could resolve by importing it into Microsoft Word, and then updating the blog post from the Word file. Unfortunately, what instead happened is that the import changed all of the existing links.

So I am now in the long process of repairing those links, and will update this post as the work is done. Sorry for the inconvenience.

To make “characters” easier to find, I have separated them out: Agamas Ringo, the Saturn Kid; Angar, Son of Ormgeld, father of Grendel; Asbolus; Assassinator of the Gods; Ayesha; Azubal, Goblin Vampire; Baal Zymymar; Balrog; Beaus; Bilbo Baggins; Breckinridge Elkins; Buffy Summers; Calibos; the California Raisins; Cap’n Kidd; Captain Jack Sparrow; Celation; Charity Desire; Child of Light; Chiron,  Aspect of; Conan the Cimmerian; Conan the Cimmerian (younger); the Crimson Renegade; Cryonax (Prince of Evil Cold); Dalek Supreme; Death Cart; Death Dealer; Death Dealer's Warhorse; Doc Savage; the Doomed Hero; Dragotha the Undead Dragon; Drowned Maid; Edward's Horses; Egrinn; Elemental Princes of Evil; Eternally Hungry Caterpillar; Euryale; Gearon; Gilbert Malévol the Fox; Gilmar's Ghost; Glory McGraw; Gwangi

The Dreaded Tarrasque

When TSR released the AD&D Monster Manual II, the Tarrasque was unleashed. The Monster Manual II was a collection of monsters, either written or compiled by Gary Gygax, as was the original. The Tarrasque was a monster to end all monsters, something to let even the highest-level characters break into a cold sweat.

The problem with the Tarrasque in DCC is that it has already been done.

Bear with me. I ask you to consider Mr. Goodman’s The Emerald Enchanter, Mr. Stroh’s Colossus, Arise!, and REDACTED’s NOT OUT YET. Each of these adventures contains an encounter that is a spiritual successor to the Tarrasque.  

From Mr. Goodman, we learn that it is allowable to create DCC monsters that the PCs don’t even have a chance to affect. And it is okay to just say a monster does XdY damage to a PC – no attack roll or save required. From Mr. Stroh we learn that sometimes a monster is going to get free environment-altering effects in addition to its attacks. (The Thing in the Chimney used the same for the Cinder Claws, albeit to a lesser extent, when it appeared in time for Christmas 2012. There is nothing new under the sun.) In REDACTED by REDACTED we see that REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED, which is close enough to the idea of the Tarrasque that I hesitate to throw my hat into this particular ring.

So, keep playing through the upcoming DCC adventures. When NOT OUT YET has been out long enough to give people a chance to play it through, I may revisit this topic. And, no, I am not going to reveal the identity of REDACTED at this time. I don’t wish to spoil any surprises. I will just say that I am not the author.

A Sore for Sight Eyes: The Gazeball

David VC descirbes “A Gazeball, a floating eye/gas spore hybrid that paralyzes you and drains your Intelligence until it explodes, after which 0-2 new gazeballs emerge from your skull...” For Dave and your reading (and gaming) pleasure, I therefore present:

Gazeball: Init –2; Atk Slam +2 melee (1d3) or infect –4 melee (0); AC 8; HD 4d8; fly MV 10’; Act 1d20; SP symbiotic spores, reproductive spores, slime, infestation, explosion, immune to mind-affecting, half damage from bludgeoning; SV Fort –5, Ref –4, Will –2; AL N.

A gazeball is a fungal horror which appears to be a large eye, floating in midair, perhaps due to some form of levitation. Rhizomatic growths at its apex appear almost like a crown of eyes, each at the end of a short tentacle-like growth. In fact, pustulant sacs in the gazeball’s mass create a volatile gas that provides lift, and the “crown of eyes” are designed to incubate, and eject the spores of, a secondary symbiotic fungi. The gazeball can shoot a line of symbiotic spores up to 30’ (Ref save DC 15 or suffer 1d3 temporary Agility damage).

When a target is paralyzed, or can barely move due to the symbiotic spores, the gazeball uses another growth to deposit its own spores on the victim. These spores are laid in a thick coat of slime over the victim’s face. The slime can be broken down by alcohol, or dissolves on its own after a period of 2d10 minutes. While the slime is present, the victim is blinded. During this period, the spores travel into the victim’s skull, where they infest the brain (a DC 20 Fort save prevents this from occurring). If the slime is washed off within the first 10 rounds, the victim gains a +1 to +10 bonus to the save, with the highest bonus indicated it is washed off within a single round.

The gazeball’s spores cause 1d3 Intelligence damage immediately upon infestation, and then cause 1d3-1 points of Intelligence damage each day thereafter. When damage causes a PC to fall to 10 Intelligence or less, the character’s entire head becomes tender. Thereafter, there is visible cranial swelling. If a victim falls to 0 Intelligence, roll 1d3-1. On a result of 1-2, the victim’s skull explodes, revealing new gazeballs equal to the number rolled (1 or 2) with 1 HD each. On a roll of “0”, the victim manages to defeat the infection, and slowly returns to normal. Otherwise, the infection can only be cured by magic or clerical healing (4 HD result or better).

A gazeball’s slam attack is only used in self-defence. The fungal creature is not looking for a meal, but for the chance to reproduce.

Finally, when damaged there is a percentage chance equal to the total damage taken that a gazeball will explode due to the weakening of the gas pustules. This causes 1d3 damage to all targets within 30’, who must also succeed in a DC 5 Fort save to avoid infestation with the gazeball’s spores. If there is an open flame within the radius of the blast, it causes a secondary explosion for 2d6 damage (Reflex save DC 10 for half damage; characters who take 6+ damage are set on fire). Each point of fire damage counts as 5 points when determining the chance of explosion.